Welcome to Good Earth Food Alliance

Community Supported Agriculture LLC

Thanks for your interest in the Good Earth Food Alliance CSA.  Registration is closed for the 2010 season. To be among the first to learn about our 2011 season go to the Mailing List sign-up, type in your info, click submit and then choose 2011 waiting list.  New members will be accepted in in early 2011 in the order you sign up here until all vacanct spots are filled.  We will begin contacting you by email in early 2011 to finalize your order.  Existing members will be given the first opportunity to renew and should go to contact us to and ask to be put on the list for 2011 information.

May through October, 2010, pick up your share of chemical-free fruits, vegetables, and herbs at one of four drop sites in west central Illinois.  

All foods are grown by the Good Earth Food Alliance network of farmers committed to practicing an organic means of production.   

• 5 convenient pick up locations
• Hult Health Education Center
• Wildlife Prairie State Park - Parkside Pavillion
• Living Earth Farm - Farmington
• OSF St Mary's in Galesburg
• Morton- Colby's Natural Health Food Store - 141 Main Street
  

What Makes Good Earth Food Alliance So Special?

We provide lots of vegetables, fruits and herbs in each of our weekly shares.

We provide lots of fruit - in 2009, GGEFA farmers provided fruit 14 weeks out of our 22 week season and we continue to strive to provide more.

A sampling of what we provided in 2009

Your chances of having a plentiful share each week are greatly increased because we do not rely on just one farm, but 8 farms scattered throughout a five county region.  This allows our CSA to "weather" the storms and extremes in our weather patterns.

We offer an "exchange table" at each weekly pick up site.  You may substitute one item you won't use for another item you will use.

We offer an egg share.

We offer a soup & bread share.

We offer local, sustainable food products purchased easily on our on-line store to our CSA share-holders.  Items include but are not limited to: 

Honey     Mushrooms     Pastured Poultry     Organic Beef & Pork     Shitake Mushrooms  Basil's Harvest herbal vinegars, homemade sauerkraut, and other gourmet foods.

We have a volunteer program where you and your family can really learn about growing food by coming out to one of our farms, help spread the news about Good Earth Food Alliance, or help unload boxes at a pick up site.

We provide an educational website, a weekly e-blast in season with recipes, storage tips, news from our farmers, and occasional "call to action" for the local food movement.

Good Earth Food Alliance (GEFA) emerged from a need for small growers and producers to work collaboratively to help meet the needs of a burgeoning local food movement.  By avoiding duplication in our planting and harvesting and assisting each other through the challenges of the growing season, we aim to see more safe locally-grown food on plates throughout west central Illinois. 

Providers of safe, chemical-free fruits, vegetables, and herbs

 From growing watermelons for our CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) members, to tiny salad greens for local restaurants, sustainable production methods are the benchmarks of the GEFA network of growers.  No synthetic pesticides, herbicides, or fungicides are ever used on GEFA fruits, vegetables and herbs.  All growers abide by our Sanitation Guidelines to ensure the produce remains free from contamination during all phases of the growing, harvesting, and packaging processes.  We are serious about keeping our food safe.

Advocates for

Small Sustainable Farms

We are a new generation of farmers.  We aim to stay small because this keeps us sustainable and ensures our ability to make frequent contact with our soil, its bounty, and the surrounding habitats.  We are diversely educated (Who We Are) yet find our backgrounds bring a plethora of talent and experience to the meeting table.  What's more - we believe in education and seek creative ways to pass along our passions about food and our planet.